ABSTRACT
This third and final empirical chapter focuses on Uganda. It follows the same broad structure as the Bosnian and Colombian chapters, based around the book’s three-part conceptual framework. However, there are many differences between the chapters – reflecting the fact that the connectivities discussed are highly contextual. What this chapter tells is a story about resilience specifically focused on the dynamic and changing connectivities – and the stories of those connectivities – between the Ugandan interviewees and their social ecologies. Interviewees spoke about broken and ruptured connectivities particularly in the sense of lost opportunities, stigma and health. They talked about various supportive and sustaining connectivities in their lives, especially family, community and land. The chapter’s analysis of new connectivities explores interviewees’ meaning-making processes and some of the different ways that they were getting on with life, including, in some cases, by resisting new connectivities.
